My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
The first summer that we spent together,we did so many obscene things to each other, thatby the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?
I’m sure that you didn’t think I would notice,but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we’re in love with them.
there are only so many thingsthat you can fix with your hands….What they don’t realize is I am not a thing to fix.
And perhaps, I’m a Tuesday night and you’re a Wednesday morning the way we’ll never even notice how we blend into each other.
He loved me like thick molasses on a summer’s day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
But when I think of us,in the quiet when I’m on my own,I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.
Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet… And she’s going to write about how she’s a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.
Even through the smoke,you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing you’d save in a fire.
You said: “Wait for the moon with me.”I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.